Why not have some German sculptors recreate your favourite vehicle – or perhaps your actual vehicle – from discarded car and bike components?

The resulting one-of-a-kind, life-size piece – the company behind these works guarantees not to do the same car twice – will almost certainly provide a talking piece. And perhaps an argument or two: “You bought what?"

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, from Giants of Steel, said things started when a customer asked the steel fabricator if it could make a life-size Messerschmitt bubble car.

“It was a Tiger 150, seven years ago. He had 70 real ones and asked, ‘Can you do an eye-catcher for us?’ It had to be nearly 100 per cent as it would be standing next to the real ones."

Since then, the company has made a 1950s gullwing Merc, a Bugatti T35, a Maserati 250 grand prix car and many Harley Davidson motorcycles, often with a metallic reproduction of the owner behind the handlebars.

The Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic shown here required only a tiny number of specially fabricated parts. The rest was scrap. It took three men four months to complete, which makes its €59,000 ($88,000) price not so extreme. Anyway, a real one could cost $40 million.

The company works mainly to order. One Giants of Steel sculpture has gone to New Zealand but none yet to Australia.

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Want to smell like a million dollars, or at least the interior of a $660,000-plus Bentley Mulsanne? Well Lalique for Bentley, comes with a crystal flacon, avec Flying B mascot.

The eau de parfum itself demonstrates, apparently, “fine woody notes and exquisite leather to complement the epicentres of excellence within Bentley’s craftsmanship". As it might want to at £3000 per 40ml (Australian price supplied at time of order).

Bentley for Men, with a knurled cap to replicate the dashboard controls, is a less elevated £70 for 100ml.

Other than these, the British icon from Crewe in Cheshire, has one of most extensive and interesting collections of “lifestyle products".

The Bentley Home collection includes a wide range of furniture, including this exquisite Richmond armchair. Price on application. See your local Bentley dealer or go to shop.bentleymotors.com

The big bike launch of the year – and we’re talking a very big bike – was the all-new Indian.

Indian is not a name you’d use nowadays, for all sorts of reasons, but Indian motorcycles go back to 1901 and were once right up there with Harleys. The company went broke in the 1950s and has been the subject of many revivals since. The latest, and best funded, comes via Polaris Industries which released a range of all-new models this year, and returned the brand to the Australian marketplace.

Prices start at about $29,000 (plus on-road costs) and progress well into the $30K bracket with plenty of opportunities to bling it up from there. Unsurprisingly, if you can’t afford the bike or have nowhere to put it, there is plenty of “merch".

OK, it’s pretty specific, but you must know someone out there who needs a matching trailer for his or her E-Type Jaguar.

When we saw this rather exquisite effort, built by Classic Motor Cars for an American client, we thought we should include it.

The company – in Bridgnorth in the United Kingdom, is just waiting to build pretty well any Jaguar-related item you want, or sell you a fully restored classic car. Prices on application. See classic-motor-cars.co.uk

OK, here’s something a bit more affordable. We covered the official F1 game last year, but this time it’s even older and grainier. Which is to say it allows you for the first time to dip back into the 1980s to experience what it was like for our very own Alan Jones to win his world championship in a Williams-Ford. Bloody hard thing to drive, I must say.

You can attempt the 2013 championship too and, although the great leaps forward in graphics and game physics from year to year have slowed, the modern cars and circuits still look pretty special. Price? $90 for Xbox and PS3, $80 for PC. Gran Turismo 6 should lob about now too.

The MG brand might be Chinese-owned nowadays and pushing out family jalopies, but for most people the sports car days hold sway. Motoring Classics – the retail arm of British Motor Heritage – has released a range of MG watches (£1405 each) and travel bags, the latter with either MG or Austin-Healey logos (from about £200). See www.bmh-ltd.com

And this reader’s favourite car book of the year? It was And The Revs Keeps Rising by expatriate Aussie journalist Mel Nichols.

During about three decades at the UK’s innovative CAR magazine, Nichols worked his way through the most outrageously powerful, or simply outrageous, cars of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

This included the top Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Porsches, the original McLaren F1 – even the ridiculous US-made Vector W2. It could all read very same same, but Nichols is a fine writer who demonstrates wide interests. And The Revs Keeps Rising costs $39.95 and is distributed by Haynes Australia.